PETER JACKSON

THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Trail-blazer: Sean Lineen playing for Scotland in 1990

The entire cast for the 1990 Five Nations, brought to a thunderous climax by Scotland’s slow walk to the Grand Slam, included one solitary New Zealander.
Sean Lineen had every ancestral right to line up behind David Sole at Murrayfield in readiness for their famous ambush of England’s supposedly unbeatable team. In the ecstatic aftermath of a weekend in Auld Reekie like no other, it did not occur to Scotland’s long-distance centre that he was about to set a global trend.
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